Can you link a pdf form to a live database (access) (act)

Can Designer create a form that can access a database live to get data and then relay the filled in information back to the database ie
job number xxxxx (from database)  Client xxxxxxx (from database) time on job xxxxx (input on form and uploaded back)
then upload this back to live database

Depends on the database and the OS. Acrobat can use an OLE/DB connection through Windows to connect to the DB and perform those operations. We normally do not recommend doing itthat way beacuse you woudl have to configure a DSN on each client machine that will need to connect ot the DB (this becomes a maintenance issue in a large envirnment  - if there is a small number of users this is less of an issue). Dependinng on the DB you may have to laod an ODBC client driver on each machine as well. Bigger installation will centralize this function on a server and have the form submit to that place for these operations.
Database connectivity is a standard feature in Acrobat but if you are using Reader it is not supported by default. You can enable the functionality by Reader Extending the file using LiveCycle Reader Extensions Server.
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